FOLKTALES OF AREA INTEREST SUBMITTED BY WWW READERS
NOTE: Feel free to contact me at any time with comments and especially if you have a Knox County-related story--whether of an historical or paranormal nature--you would like to see posted here. I am especially interested in variations of the local legends you read in these pages, so start bugging your grandparents. I reserve the right to edit all submissions for matters of taste/appropriateness/libel/selected grammar, etc., though as far as accuracy of these folk legends is concerned, the stories submitted are the responsibility of the authors. --Richard L. King, Reference Librarian, Shake Library, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN 47591
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Writer
Says "No Ghosts" at Hazleton Bridge -- Submitted by Stacy, galaxeee3@aol.com,
2/24/05
UFO Videotaped
at Lucky Point! -- Submitted by Tracey Huntley, 8/27/05
Ghost
Stories from Oaktown and Bicknell -- Submitted by Ashleigh Duby, Mattduby@wmconnect.com,
5/6/05
More
'Purple Head' Bridge Stories -- Submitted by B. Smith," bsmith0@hotmail.com,
4/25/05
Valparaiso
Haunted House Legend -- Submitted by Stacey Gibson, stacy_gibson@hotmail.com,
10/11/04
Purple Head Bridge Experience
Related -- Submitted by PyrFire@aol.com, 10/08/04
Mysterious, Floating,
Black-Clad Figure Spotted at Clark Memorial, Vincennes -- Submitted
by Angie Weaver, 10/05/04
Momo Legend of Morgan County,
Indiana --Submitted by Supersnad02@aol.comm, 7/20/04
Haunted House
Near Oaktown, Indiana? --Submitted by sawyer106@juno.com, 2/12/04
Haunted Hotel, Washington, Indiana
-- Submitted by Todd Raymann, toddanthony040872@yahoo.com, 10/26/03
Bridge Experience
-- Submitted by nit_whit03@hotmail.com, 10/11/03
UFO Observed--Submitted
by Scott Jones,skot@charter.net, 2/22/04
Reader Relates Seven
Indiana Legends--Submitted by Monica Hetrick, piper15@msn.com,
12/31/2002
A Cry Baby Bridge Story
from Decatur, Alabama
--Submitted by Jillr008@aol.com, 10/27/02
A Visit to Lucky Point
--Submitted by Lyndsey Ludwicki, prncess0707@hotmail.com, 10/26/2002
More Information About
Rogues Hollow Cry Baby Bridge, Near Doylestown, Ohio
--Submitted by Lisa, Mrandazzo@neo.rr.com, 10/2/00
A Visit to Rogues Hollow
Cry Baby Bridge, Near Doylestown, Ohio
--Submitted by Ryan Howard, bigmonke1@hotmail.com, 8/13/00
Ex-Marine Relates 1982
Creature Encounter Near Bedford
--Submitted by Derek Harrison, DerrieHarrison@email.msn.com, 6/5/2000
Another Cry Baby Bridge
Discovered in Ohio
--Submitted by Jeff Fishel, CornStar374@aol.com, 5/21/2000
More Bunker Hill Ghostly
Tales
--Submitted by Murphy Murphy, samthedog50@hotmail.com, 4/19/2000
A Bunker Hill Ghost Story
--Submitted by Murphy Murphy, samthedog50@hotmail.com, 4/7/2000
Remembering Purple Head
--Submitted by Melissa Shaw, Sept. 27, 1999
Wedding Tradition of Dancing
in a Pig Trough Discussed
--Submitted by Terry Arnold, Aug. 26, 1999
Tennessee Bell Witch Link
Shared by Writer
--Submitted by H.J. Halterman, Aug. 26, 1999
Former Knox County Resident
Recalls Haunted Houses Near Oaktown, Edwardsport
--Submitted by Lana B. LeSieur, March 8, 1999
Old Vincennes Gazette Newspaper
Copy Found
--Submitted by Paul Roales, March 5, 1999
New Hoosier Hauntings Book
Published; Cushman Company Question
--Submitted by Paul Roales, March 3, 1999
Indiana History Literary
Fraud Uncovered: The Case of the Forged Diary
--Submitted by R. King, Nov. 20, 1998 (with help from Paul Roales
and Richard Day)
Cry Baby Bridge (Maryland)
--Submitted by R. King, Oct. 26, 1998 (Written by Deena Gitaitis,
April 1, 1998)
Another Strange Encounter:
The Woods (Near Bicknell)
--Submitted by Jessie, Oct. 23, 1998
The Old Hazelton Bridge
--Submitted by Jessie, Oct. 22, 1998
Information Needed on Haunted
Restaurant in Clarksville, Indiana
--Submitted by Wanda Lou Willis, Sept. 23, 1998
Another Cry Baby Bridge
Reported in Philadelphia Area
--Submitted by Jen Curtis, Sept. 18, 1998.
Public Speaker Relates
Tales of Stangle's Bridge, Haunted Sigma Pi Fraternity House
--Submitted by Wanda Lou Willis, Sept. 5-8, 1998.
Response to Rena Westbrook's
Architecture Query
--Submitted by Paul Roales, August 23, 1998
Vincennes Architecture Query:
St. John's German Catholic Church
--Submitted by Rena Westbrook, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, August 14,
23 1998
Theriac/Teriack/Tiriac/Theriaque
Old Vincennes Family Genealogy Assistance Requested
--Submitted by Janet Theriac, botta@iquest.net, Aug. 8 and 10,
1998
WWW Reader Relates Her Own
Haunted Legacy
--Submitted by Judy Graves, Aug. 7, 1998
Old Vincennes Bonneau
Family Genealogy Query
--Submitted by C. Alan Boneau, Bethesda, MD, July 29 and 30, 1998
Former Vincennes Resident
Relates Family Mysteries
--Submitted by June Kinard, Lincoln Park, Mich., June 28, 1998
Kessinger Ditch/Lucky Point
Query
--Submitted by Bill Williams, June 9, 1998
Clark Memorial/$5 Connection?
--Submitted by James Bailey, May 5, 1998
Oklahoma Cry-Baby Bridge
Story
--Submitted by hershner@semo.net, April 29, 1998
Former Wheatland Resident
Comments on Haunted House, Lucky Point, Ghost Hollow, Ghost Video, and
More!
--Submitted by Brenda Vantlin, April 21, 1998 (and other dates)
Ohio Cry-Baby Bridge Stories
--Submitted by tracepooh@aol.com, March 3, 1998
Another Bicknell Haunting:
The Yellow Two-Story House
--Submitted by Betty Ducharme, Bicknell, Ind., Jan. 8, 1998
Bicknell Newspaper Employees
Spooked By Spoof of Ghostly Coal Miners
--Submitted by Betty Ducharme, Bicknell, Ind., Jan. 8, 1998
Ghost Comforts Couple
in Bicknell Haunted House
--Submitted by Betty Ducharme, Bicknell, Ind., Dec. 30, 1997
1899
Meteor Mystery Resolved?
--Submitted by Paul A. Roales, Sept. 18, 1997
Lafayette Reader Relates
Indiana Folklore Research
--Submitted by David Billington, Lafayette, Sept. 16, 1997
Vacelet Murders Also
Entered Local Folklore
--Submitted by Sam Sievers, Knox County, Sept. 14, 1997
Mystery in the Hoosier
National Forest
--Submitted by Richard L. King, August 13, 1997
Alligators in Vincennes?
--Submitted by Paul A. Roales, August 10, 1997
Meteorite in Wabash River
in the 1930s?
--Submitted by Paul A. Roales, July 27, 1997
What Happened At Cry-Baby
Bridge?
--Submitted by John Stangle, Vincennes, July 25, 1997
The Mysteries of Lucky
Point
--Submitted by D.V. Pyle, Washington, July 15, 1997
Oklahoma Reader Discovers
Dark Hollow/Robeson Hills Comments In Letter
--Submitted by Linda Leebron, Oklahoma, July 9, 1997
The Legend of Pointing
Mary
--Submitted by unknown Vincennes University Student, July 1997
Ghostly Woman in White
Reenacts Tragic Death Along Vincennes-Lawrenceville, Ill. Railroad Tracks
--Submitted by H.J. Halterman, Vincennes, June 18, 1997
Did
"Snow-White" Meteorite Fall at Vincennes In 1899?
--Submitted by Paul A. Roales, June 9, 1997
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